Have you read it yet?

It's Dec 1 - NaNoEdMo as someone said. And I *think* the boards stay up til October 2012 (right Jenn?). Anybody want to stick around during the editing process?

I read the first 10 pages of my novel yesterday, red pen in hand, while I was waiting to pick up my son. Actually, I'm happy with it so far (and I realize 10 pages isn't much to go on, but I was kind of terrified to start!). We're flying to FL today for the weekend, and that's my plane entertainment (hopefully I won't shriek out loud and start an incident!)... I'll let you know how it goes.

Congrats to everyone, whether you "won" or not! You still wrote a draft, and that's awesome!

I've read that the boards stay open until Oct 2012 as well. I think keeping an editing thread going is a great idea. I read the first 10 pages and was pretty happy, too, so I posted them on my novel info page.

I can't edit it until I finish a rewrite on something else that is due at the end of the year. But I can't wait to dig in!

Congrats to you - 88, 651 words. Whew!

I let my sister read some yesterday...she liked the start, then said it got confusing...sigh.

Right now all my "story" is a a bunch of scenes and a couple of chapters nothing that is really readable at the moment.

Not as such. I've read parts, but it's not actually done yet, so. I like 90% of what I've read of this year's effort; I just need to tighten it up and shuffle some things around; my narrator tends to go on expository tangents in the middle of dialog and action scenes.

I started reading a little bit as I gathering all my chapters together for validation, but I stopped myself short. I want to leave it alone for at least a month. I was ready to start over halfway through but I just kept adding on, negating certain things and changing others. It's not even close to being a true novel, I'm looking forward to going back and starting over, but for now I need my space for awhile.

I'm already missing my friggin' characters a little. They're gestating better inside my head now, though, now that I've spent that time exploring them. Still making notes and keeping them around, but now that I've jump started the creative engine again I'm going to stretch out with some other writing projects.

The cool thing is, I obstinately refused to let friends and family guilt trip me out of taking the time I wanted to write this past month, so now I feel empowered to keep right on doing that. That feels like early Christmas to me.

I've read occasional bits, as I do all the time when writing, but I still have 15K-20K to go before it's done and I don't want to procrastinate too much until the end is reached.

As most of it was written last year (the first 100K), there's a lot that I've forgotten that'll be intriguing to read during the first round of word-wrestling and editing. But I shan't read it properly until the first print - at which point it gets serious! :D

I read through it last night. I was up until 1:00 in the morning.
The pacing sucks, there is a lot of description missing, some uninteded repetition needs to be eliminated, several characters sound too much alike and some of the tougher scenes need to be developed fully instead of just skimmed over.
Then again, there a some real gems in there, so it's worth fixing.
In other words, I have my work cut out for me.

Nope. Not even finished writing it yet. Will write to the end and probably re-read in February or March.

I'm debating whether to re-read on its own, or continuously from last year's, which it runs on from. Not sure yet if they will be 2 different books or 1 bigger one.

Nope. It's a finished draft in a skeletal sort of way, though. I have gone back and worked on my character sketches and root plot outline filling in details that *I think* I wrote into the story during nano. I am a bit scared to actually read it.

I haven't yet. I need to get back in, add, delete, replace and ..... phew. I think I'm going to have a beer.

Still writing....

I read it through quickly but I want to take the time to sit and read PROPERLY because I did actually quite like what I'd written (well, it wasn't awful). I have been toying around with this idea for a couple of years but just couldn't write it so I tried it for NaNo ... I think the discipline of having to get that 50,000 words down in that time so you have a tight deadline is really important because I leaped over the barriers this time.

This has to be ready by January because I have people waiting on it ... they may get a 2nd draft at best.

Take care
Mel

REMEMBER: It's the things you DON'T do in life that you regret, not what you do, do!

Only read enough to try and pick up where I left off. It didn't work. I'm completely stalled.

I'm still writing... VERY slowly...

Read it, editted it, got it in print. Just a single copy from Lulu, to be honest. It's a fanfic so I can't publish it. Still, it's *mine*! :D

It's so ... *shiny* ...